ASRock B450M Pro4 AM4 M-ATX D-Sub/HDMI/DVI DDR4 Retail - AMD Socket AM4 (Ryzen) - Micro/Mini/Flex-ATX Motherboard , black

When I built my gaming rig, the only thing was getting the right Ram for this board. So I saw a video on YouTube about the only Fast sticks of Ram that fitted this board perfectly at that time were G.Skill 16 GB DDR4-3200 CL16 G.Skill RipJaws V Noir Series, these little wonders saved my life and it is my new build that I'm writing this review on and have had this build for a couple of months now. I cannot believe the power of this motherboard, easy to setup and if like me you have a really nice case to put it in? You'll be rockin' along. The AI shield can be cumbersome, but if you trim off the sticky outty metal bits you'll have no problem slotting in the motherboard. On my build I have Ryzen 5 2600 CPU, 16GB of G.Skill Rip-Jaws Ram, make sure you put the ram in the right slots, for two 8GB sticks they should go into slot 2 and slot 4. Also on my build is 650What Watt even semi modular Power Supply and for graphics a Nvidia 1050ti. The operating system is Peppermint OS 10 Linux, many people will be asking as to why? As Linux has not got very many games. On the contrary, we now have Steam Play which is also called Proton and the wonderful people at Valve who gave us all Steam, worked with the wonderful people at Code-Weavers, who gave us WINE which stands for Wine Is Not A Emulator. WINE enables us to run Microsoft stuff in Linux, with the help of some very clever programmers, we are able to play Windows games in Linux. I will never ever own a Windows machine ever again for gaming, simply because I get better performance here in Linux and I know that I won't have to start paying for using a Operating System, like Windows will be in the next year or two. Windows or Microsoft want you stream their OS for a weekly or monthly fee, Linux is yours to own and do whatever you want with, plus it's free. End of speech, glad I got that off my chest, back to the review. Inside the bios of this, set your ram up to read fastest speeds as Ryzen processors like the Ryzen 5 2600 like fast Ram, the faster the better. I also bought a Icy Dock to house four SSD drives, though this motherboard only has four Sata inputs, I have had to give up one Sata input for my DVD drive, which came out of a build that the motherboard itself had given up the ghost. Building your own desktop has never been so easy, this board I can highly recommend as I'm going to build another to use as a streaming PC, through a onboard capture card. Using the same motherboard, Case, Ram, Power Supply, below is the parts I highly recommend to go with this build. RAM https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B015FXXBW0/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 ICY DOCK https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00V5JHOXQ/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 MODULAR HYBRID PSU https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B06WVWXPVZ/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 CASE https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01LW3YN1I/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Choice of Ryzen Processors https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07B41WS48/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Choice Of SSD Drives https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B073SBZ8YH/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o09_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Fans I recommend https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B078JW73WF/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 These are all the things I have in my case and of course the choice is yours, you don't have to copy me, but I just wanted to give you an idea of the quality stuff there is here on Amazon. Unfortunately I don't do overclocking so no point in me recommending a water cooler, as never use them. This board is a pleasure to build with and the speed of this is just spectacular. Highly Recommend to new and advanced PC builders.

Big fan of this feature-packed MATX board. Highlights for me: 1. 2 NVMe drive slots along with 4 SATA ports (plenty of storage options) 2. Compatibility with AMD Store MI, which allows you create your own SSD/standard drive hybrid storage solution. In short, you will be able to bring down the cost of high speed storage access by combining a small SSD with a large standard internal drive. 3. Excellent overclocking bios. RAM and CPU overclocking easy to do, and VRM heatsinks are up to the task 4. Future-proofed somewhat. You can flash the bios and enable the latest 3000 series Ryzen to run on this. Say you are on a 2600, you could move up to as high as a 3900X without a full motherboard transplant. 5. Excellent sound chip with some high quality chokes 6. Lots of USB: 2.00, 3.00 and the latest C supported. 7. Nicely laid out board, and nice to look at. 8. 4 RAM slots At this price-point it's hard to fault. I would say if you are bit more serious about overclocking, the ASROCK Mortar B450M board is better equipped, but that costs a good chunk more. For me this seems fine, although those VRM heatsinks feel like they are being worked hard when pushing component performance. Overall, a great option for a Ryzen 2000 chip. 100% satisfied.

Great motherboard and does everything its meant to so no worries there, when I first got it I didn't know you had to put the ram in slots A2 and B2 if you have only two and it isn't very clear in the manual so I was getting blue screened restarts due to this, its only that I googled it I found out I didn't in fact have a broken motherboard and I even went as far as reinstalling windows 10 and thinking maybe my ram wasn't working due to it restarting. So if you buy this motherboard make sure you put the ram in these slots.

Good basic microATX board, looks well-built. No problems so far. Good user interface. Fan control poor though adequate. Only 4 SATA.

This is 100% worth it for Ryzen owners. It's affordable, has stuff like M.2 SSD slots, and supports basically all ryzen CPUS, even the new 5000 series (as long as you get the BIOS update). I would 100% recommend this. However, I don't know how long this will last. Since the Ryzen 5000 series requires a BIOS update to work on this, I have my doubts it will work with the next series of Ryzen CPUS. But, we will have to wait and see, and that wont be for a bit considering the Ryzen 5000 series only launched recently. This is a great motherboard and I have had no issues with it.

The board comes well packaged, with all the necessary bits. Working on the board wasn't hard, it's layout is good and the SATA ports are thankfully at right angle to the board face. The I/O cover is not sturdy at all, and it gave me a problem with one of the hooks stuck in the HDMI port, but taking the board out and solving that issue was easy enough to do. Installing the board is easy, so is putting in the CPU, GPU, RAM and connectors. It's worth being careful when putting in the 24-pin connector, so the board doesn't flex too much, although mine stood up to it. Setting the right ram speed in the BIOS was quick and easy. The BIOS gives you lots of information and settings to use. I recommend ASRock's A-tuning software, it works excellent, it gives temps and allows you test fans and set fan curves. All in all, I'm very pleased with the board, recommend.

I used this board on a budget build for my son's gaming pc and if was a pleasure to work with.it has pros an cons as amatx board's are always a compromise due to smaller size so less physical parts. Pros for me are small size .high surface area vrm heatsinks .good price . Cons were, I would have liked more fan controllers ( however I got around this by getting a 3x case fan deal with an external fan controller ) and no RGB on the board. It works fine out of the box and is now a reliable pc Final spec ryZen 5 1600, 16 GB ram,gtx 1070, 120 GB SSD for Windows, 3tb HDD for games.

Quite a lot packed into this smaller board, NVMe M.2 drive plus a SATA3 Speed M.2, decent heatsinks, multiple fan connectors, RGB port, 3 lots of video outputs, lots of USB ports. Purchased as part of a Retro gaming computer that I am working on, follow my links for YT unboxing video. Only qualm is the I/O shield is of poor quality but this is typical of a board for this price. Overall I am happy with this purchase, I will update this post if I discover any issues after my build.

it was one of the cheapest b450 boards when i bought it in November-2019 for my budget build. It came with latest bios 3.60 for ryzen 3000. At the moment using it with R3 2200G and corsair CL15 3000mhz RAM 8gb x2=16, regular XMP profile

Me ha estado funcionando muy bien y cumple con mis necesidades a la perfección. El hecho que tenga disipadores en VRM es una enorme ventaja para OC en la CPU y las RAM, tiene las conexiones perfectas para mí, me impresionó la cantidad de conectores para ventiladores y que tenga dos puertos m.2. Ya viene lista para Ryzen 3000 y ya soporta Ryzen 5000 así que me dá para pensar en buenos upgrades.

Motherboard is 'rock solid' with many features, including Dual USB 3.1 Gen2 (Type-A + Type-C) ports. Combined with AMD Ryzen 3100 and Corsair Vengeance LPX RAM, works like a charm.

Grazie al tool kit (completamente gratuito) richiedibile ad AMD son riuscito ad installare un Ryzen 7 3700x senza dover acquistare un altro processore della generazione precedente compatibile col BIOS installato di default su questa scheda madre. In generale funziona come previsto, il BIOS ha veramente molti parametri per overclocking e altre impostazioni per configurare completamente le periferiche (son talmente tanti che dopo mezza giornata devo ancora capirne la maggior parte). L'unica pecca è il supporto tecnico (o RMA) Asrock che, non avendo una sede in Europa o in Italia, risulta esclusivamente in inglese. Per il resto è la miglior scheda madre per rapporto prezzo/qualità che io abbia trovato su Amazon per questo tipo di processori.

Das Mainboard habe ich jetzt bereits in 2 Rechnern verbaut und bin begeistert. Vom Preis-Leistungs-Verhältnis her aus meiner Sicht im Moment kaum schlagbar. Beide Boards kamen mit dem aktuellen Bios (Agesa 1004) und liefen vom ersten Start an stabil mit dem neuen Ryzen 5 1600 (AF) und Corsair DDR4 RAM. XMP funktioniert. Bei einem der Rechner habe ich den RAM übertaktet. Funktioniert ebenfalls, wenn man weiß was zu tun ist. Die Haptik ist für diese Preisklasse wirklich erstklassig. Die Kühler auf den Spannungswandlern machen einen vertrauenerweckenden Eindruck und sind lt. PCGH bis hin zum Ryzen 9 tauglich. Mit dem Ryzen 5 ohne OC natürlich sowieso. Positiv finde ich die 5 geregelten Lüfteranschlüsse, die sich alle an den richtigen Stellen befinden und übers Bios 1a regelbar sind. Die Ausstattung reicht von Spitzenklasse (USB) bis "geht so" (Audio). Wer seinen Sound über HDMI laufen lässt, dem kann es egal sein. Einen Digitalausgang sucht man jedoch vergeblich. Es gibt nur 4 SATA-Anschlüsse. Wer sich das Board kauft, sollte wissen was er braucht. Das Bios ist übersichtlich und bietet alle von mir benötigten Funktionen. Von mir klare Kaufempfehlung.